This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1846, Congress approved President James K. Polk’s request to declare war on Mexico in a boundary dispute over Texas, known as the Mexican-American War.

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If there aren’t people that are willing to pay illegals to do the work that Americans won’t do, then illegals will stop coming here. If the purpose is economic, then if you shut off the economic spigot, that will stop it, whether you close the border or not. If the purpose is economic inasmuch as they come here and get free things, housing, education, healthcare and what have you, if you shut the spigot off, ditto that. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - It makes no sense to me. This is another great example of how the propaganda and “to the victor go the spoils” mentality that it has weighed on the heads of Texans for 150 years. You drive around Houston and you’ll see secede stickers all over the place. No one is actually talking about doing something about it. I’d say there are about 16 trillion immediate reasons why you ought to do something about it. Check out today's transcript for the rest...

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The beginnings of Skynet are very real, they’re not fictional, and they’re very terrifying. The fact that you people in Texas are going to have tens of thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles just roaming the countryside in search of an illegal, how do they know it’s an illegal? Check out today's transcript for the rest...

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - We look back in history and look at all the rotten things that happened in history and decry this person and decry that king and that tyrant and dictator for doing all these things, yet when our very own government is doing it, not only do we not decry it, we cheer and root it on and want to argue over why it ought to be done. Do you not think that many people at the time the historical atrocities were being committed, that there weren’t patriots, those that were drunk with jingoistic patriotism that weren’t saying similar things? Some of this has to do with the hated and despicable cut in military spending that is allegedly right around the corner. Check out the rest in today's transcript...

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - Join us on this special Founders TV episode as Mike interviews Laurence M. Vance on the drug war going on, not only in the United States, but also in Mexico and the freedom and liberty is costing Americans every day. For the rest of the interview and more news on Founders TV, be sure and grab a Founders Pass to watch the entire episode.